WANA - Pakistani militants beheaded a man accused of spying for US forces in a tribal area bordering Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday.
The headless body of a man was found late Monday in a sack on a roadside in Jandola, a town bordering the troubled South Waziristan tribal region, a security official told AFP.
The severed head was placed near the sack and a note near his body read "US spy" and "Rawalpindi", he said. Rawalpindi is a garrison city near the capital, Islamabad, where army headquarters are situated.
Local residents failed to identify the man -- who appeared to be in his mid-40s -- after which the body was buried, the security official said.
In the same area last month, militants decapitated an Afghan cleric accused of spying for US forces and making recordings of anti-Taliban speeches.
Militants have killed several pro-government tribal elders and other tribesmen in recent months.
Separately, two mortar shells fired by suspected militants exploded near a residential compound for military officers and their families in neighbouring North Waziristan's main town, Miranshah, another security official said.
There were no casualties in the attack early Tuesday, he added.
Pakistan signed peace deals with insurgents in South Waziristan in 2005 and North Waziristan in 2006, prompting concerns from NATO, US and Afghan officials.
One of the conditions was an end to targeted killings by the militants.
03/13/2007 15:13 GMT